C-Kermit 10.0 Beta-Test Builds 2022

Frank da Cruz
fdc@columbia.edu
Last update: Mon Jun 6 11:11:33 2022
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Footnotes:

1. The warnings will be looked at in a subsequent Beta test.
2. -DNOARROWKEYS will be necessary when Gnu kills the API used for reading them.
3. 87 warnings, then compilation stopped in ckcnet.c with errors in the rlog_* variables (in support code for rlogin protocol). This didn't happen in "make linuxclang", but that's much older clang version.
4. Linux-script-only: A minimum-size version for Linux that does only scripting and serial communication -- no networks, no file transfer, no security.
5. Type cast needed in ckctel.c to suppress the following warning:
   

       Compiling WISP$DUA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.CKU10_0-BETA04]CKCTEL.C
                             sprintf(request,"%cUSER",TEL_ENV_VAR); /* safe */
           ..........................^
   

   %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH1, In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer value "request" is "unsigned char", which is not compatible with "char" because they differ by signed/unsigned attribute. At line number 4676 in WISP$DUA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.CKU10_0-BETA04]CKCTEL.C;1.
6. All VMS builds with vendor-supplied compilers get an info message like the following:

       Compiling WISP$DUA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.CKU10_0-BETA04]CKVTIO.C
                   while ((n--) && xx_inc(2) >= 0) ; /* Ignore Warning - see comments */
           ........................^
   

   %CC-I-QUESTCOMPARE, In this statement, the unsigned expression "(--ttxbn>=0?(unsigned)(ttxbuf[ttxbp++]&0X000000ff):txbufr(...))" is being compared with a relational operator to a constant whose value is not greater than zero. This might not be what you intended. At line number 921 in WISP$DUA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.CKU10_0-BETA04]CKVTIO.C;1. %VCG-I-SUMMARY, Completed with 0 error(s), 0 warning(s), and 1 informational messages. At line number 4305 in WISP$DUA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.CKU10_0-BETA04]CKCTEL.C;1.
7. 69 dangling else (suppressible by adding "-Wdangling-else"), 4 CHAR/char complaints (suppressible with "-funsigned-char" or "-Wpointer-sign"). 2 comparisons to string literals (suppressible with "-Wstring-compare"), 2 "logwtmp is deprecated" (suppressible with "-Wdeprecated-declarations" or with "-DNOWTMP"), 1 unused value.

Beta.03

Alpha.07

1. It seems that Kerberos header files and libraries are kept in different places, perhaps with different names, on different computers and/or OS distributions. Thus the K5INC and K5LIB definitions on the 'make' command line. The default definitions can be seen in the makefile starting about line 827.
2. There are at least two versions of Kerberos 5: MIT and Heimdal. The "-krb5" makefile targets assume MIT. To choose Heimdahl, include KFLAGS="-DHEIMDAHL" on the 'make' command line and be prepared to see a lot of warnings and errors. If you're able to fix them without breaking the MIT Kerberos support, I'll be glad to incorporate your fixes. The full 'make' command I used on NetBSD was too long for the table: make netbsd+krb5 K5INC="‑I /usr/include/krb5" KFLAGS="‑DHEIMDAL".
3. "+shadow+pam" needed for IKSD.
4. Warnings: 148 dangling else's; 4 pointer/integer types; 2 string literal comparisons; 2 extraneous parentheses; 1 without parentheses. Bug: File download creates empty backup file even when the receiver had no file by the same name, due to an idiosyncracy of the Mac OS X stat() function. This bug is fixed in the next test release as are most or all of the warnings.

Alpha.06

Notes:

• The Alpha.05 Debian builds are from this table at Debian.org; they were done under the forthcoming new Debian version (which is classified as "unstable" because development is still in progress) with OpenSSL 1.1.1l-1.
• In the Alpha.05 Ubuntu builds, Jammy is a code name for the Ubuntu version expected to be be released in April 2022 as Ubuntu 22.04. The OpenSSL version was 3.0. Click on the DOWNLOAD button just below to get the current source-code tarball (or Zip file, your choice).